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 Organisations offering office-based roles such as accountancy jobs in the City of London have been urged to avoid treating age as an important factor behind their assessment of staff and potential future employees.According to Jane Ashcroft, chief executive of charity Anchor, this should be disregarded as firms should make recruitment a "level playing field" for all people, whether they are younger or more experienced. "Our plea is that a job should be given to the right person; the decision shouldn't be made about whether somebody is too old or too young," she explained. Ms Ashcroft was speaking following the publication of a study by the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging earlier this month (April 18th), which showed that older employees were no less productive than their youthful equivalents, even when carrying out physically demanding work. She added that employers must therefore recognise people "for their skills", not their age. Posted by Daniel Frost 
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